verb
- Give off.
- usage: "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
- Reflect brightly.
- usage: "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
- Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.
- usage: "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star"
- Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.
- usage: "the phosphor fluoresced"
- Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.
- usage: "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"
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